Focused research on the global home networks ecosystem and connectivity within the home for both service provider and retail market segments. Covers cable, DSL, FTTH, and Fixed LTE consumer premise equipment (CPE), with regional and country level data, as well as Wi-Fi, voice, and different access technologies.

Detailed information on channel revenue and program expenditure. Revenue data includes splits for carriage revenue, direct to consumer subscriptions and advertising. Programming data covers spend on original content, acquisitions and sport.

The Channel Line-up & Availability Database provides continuously updated information on the availability and distribution of pay TV and free to air channels across traditional broadcast and online platforms.

The IHS Markit Set-top Box Intelligence vendor relationships database contains a record of which Set-top Box vendors are currently working with which pay TV operators, on a by-operator basis, for over 80 countries and over 500 operations.

Liberty Global has reached an agreement to sell its Central and Eastern European DTH (direct-to-home) TV services to international pay TV operator M7 Group. The deal, valued at €180 million ($206 million), covers the UPC Direct service in Hungary, the freeSAT brand in Czech Republic and Slovakia, and FocusSat in Romania. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval, which is expected in the first half of 2019.
The proposed deal follows Liberty Global’s sale of key cable TV assets in Germany and Central and Eastern Europe to Vodafone in May 2018, and the divestment of its Austrian unit to T-Mobile in July 2018. The transaction provides further signs of Liberty Global retreating from Europe and doubling down on the markets where it has scale.

This report is based on analysis of the latest quarterly financial reports filed by 30 publicly-listed TV and video companies in the US, Japan and Europe. They include the broadcasting and cable network divisions of major US groups, the leading Japanese commercial broadcasters, and the largest publicly listed TV companies in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden.

The Central and Eastern Europe pay TV market monitor provides an in-depth insight into the key trends affecting the pay TV market in the CEE region in 2017. It includes data and analysis on pay TV operators, their subscribers and revenues, key M&A activity in the region, and the impact of online TV services on pay TV growth. The report focuses on the top eight CEE markets; Poland, Russia, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Serbia and Bulgaria.